- an act or instance of involving or entangling; involvement.
- the state of being involved.
- something complicated.
- a function that is its own inverse.
- Botany, Zoology.
- a rolling up or folding in upon itself.
- a part so formed.
- retrograde development; degeneration.
- regressive changes in the body, as those occurring with old age.
- growth without evolution, as in a growing agrarian society with increased field labor whose production mechanisms become more complex without increasing yield; diminishing returns.
- a complex construction in which the subject is separated from its predicate by intervening clauses or phrases.
- the act of involving or complicating or the state of being involved or complicated
- something involved or complicated
- degeneration or structural deformation
- an involute formation or structure
- reduction in size of an organ or part, as of the uterus following childbirth or as a result of ageing
- an algebraic operation in which a number, variable, expression etc, is raised to a specified power
- an involved construction, such as one in which the subject is separated from the predicate by an additional clause
